According to legend, Leizu was sipping tea beneath a mulberry tree when a silkworm cocoon fell into her cup. As she attempted to remove it, she discovered that the cocoon unraveled into a long ...

A highly invasive tree originally from China, the white mulberry (Morus alba) was brought to the United States to begin colonial silkworm production. However, while the silkworm industry in the U ...

The arduous task of silkworm cultivation involved keeping the tiny silkworm eggs (about 35,000 of them weigh only an ounce) at the correct temperature. Hatched worms then had to be fed mulberry ...

Once upon a time, circa 2700 BC in China, empress Xi Ling Shi was enjoying her afternoon tea under a mulberry tree, when a silkworm cocoon fell from the tree into her tea. She noticed that on contact ...

A sericulture revolution in East Africa, powered by Japan’s silkworm and silk expertise Selecting/breeding mulberry and silkworm species suited to Kenya, developing silk materials Kenya’s biological ...